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Easily digestible tech news....https://www.techdirt.com/blog/podcast/articles/20150303/11185930199/techdirt-podcast-episode-14-do-you-need-proprietary-platform-to-be-serious-media-company-today.shtml#c5
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:35:27 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/podcast/articles/20150303/11185930199/techdirt-podcast-episode-14-do-you-need-proprietary-platform-to-be-serious-media-company-today.shtml#c5Re: Let me see if I have this straighthttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c590
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:35:17 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c590It's not the library board...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c254
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:32:50 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c254Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Title II does not create net neutrality.https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1516
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:31:06 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1516ruling and summary) that Portland was barred from requiring AT&T Broadband (now owned by Comcast) to allow competition over the TCI cable network it purchased around 1998-99. The common carrier rule (again Title II) forbade any local restrictions on a "telecommunications service" provider, and even though cable internet was properly classified as an "information service" that Portland could regulate, it was also deemed to be a "telecommunications service" that Portland could not regulate under the Telecommunications Act.

The FCC's response to the courts ruling at the time was to continue treating cable internet services as an "information service" under Section 706 and not as a "telecommunications service" by forbearance. Somehow, AT&T (now Comcast) got to have their cake and eat it too.

If you were truly concerned with competition as you claim, you would either have to revoke cable internet's common carrier protected status under the Ninth Circuit ruling so they can be locally required to allow competition on the existing infrastructure, or reclassify them as a common carrier in alignment with the Ninth Circuit ruling and allow the FCC to require competition.

Unfortunately, this whole net neutrality under Title II argument has had nothing to do with opening up the last mile cable internet services to competition at all. Only whether content or communications served can be blocked, restricted, or be required to pay a bandwidth tax for preferred provider privileges by those same ISPs who were handed a free monopoly on the infrastructure by the same government you're now denouncing.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c182
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:29:50 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c182https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c181
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:29:10 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c181Hypocrisy 101--obviously failed it the first time.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c377
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:28:09 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c377But why would we think that they would use it that way?]]>Jammershttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c370
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:27:07 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c370Marriott didn't see any problem with jamming the UNLICENSED frequencies that wifi uses.]]>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sigh...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150227/18171630168/us-court-rules-that-kim-dotcom-is-fugitive-thus-doj-can-take-his-money.shtml#c1983
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:26:16 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150227/18171630168/us-court-rules-that-kim-dotcom-is-fugitive-thus-doj-can-take-his-money.shtml#c1983copyright mother theresahttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c240
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:24:59 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c240https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c159
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:21:52 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c159Re: gayhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150226/13240330154/gay-party-company-goes-after-another-gay-party-organizer-over-generic-gay-days-trademark.shtml#c374
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:20:52 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150226/13240330154/gay-party-company-goes-after-another-gay-party-organizer-over-generic-gay-days-trademark.shtml#c374https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c137
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:19:31 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c137Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c351
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:18:52 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c351Perhaps the police would finally have those "flash mobs" they're apparently so scared of.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c132
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:16:47 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c132This muppet is such an embarrassmenthttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c110
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:15:39 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c110There are only so many corners of your mouth you can be seen talking out of at the same time before appearing ridiculous.]]>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Title II does not create net neutrality.https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1505
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:11:39 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1505

You're talking about free-market capitalism, which is a provably false theory.

Free market capitalism does exist. Black markets are market systems that are not regulated and exist without laws such as property rights. Black markets are the very definition of a free market system and exist at this very moment all around us.]]>Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c106
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:11:12 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/07065030193/president-obama-complains-to-china-about-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-as-his-adminisration-demands-same-thing.shtml#c106Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1485
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:10:49 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1485All joking aside, he may very well be an economics professor. One of the big economic controversies in the last ten years is that most economics courses are based entirely on mathematical models and free-market theory, especially in the "freshwater" schools. Mainstream economics is exactly what the U.S. government based their financial deregulation in the 80s and 90s on, and directly led to the 2008 bubble (which, amusingly, don't exist in Austrian or mainstream economic theories). I wouldn't be surprised for an economics professor to have no idea how economics work in actual economies.]]>Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c205
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:09:51 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c205